In the Shape of a Boar - Softcover
In pre-Homeric times, the Greek heroes united one last time to hunt down the Boar of Kalydon. Three and a half millennia later, the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon is re-enacted, and once again re-told. In the final months of WWII, Greek partisans pursue their quarry, an SS officer, in the same mountains the ancient Boar of Kalydon once roamed. Witness to the hunt is Sol Memel, a young Rumanian-Jewish poet fleeing for his life. Sol has lost his family and abandoned his lover, Ruth. Sol's role in the SS officer's eventual capture and killing inspires him to rewrite the ancient myth as a poem. When Ruth reappears twenty-five years later and proposes a film based on the writing of the poem, the ghosts of Sol's wartime past materialise. And behind them stand the ghosts of ancient Greece, the long-dead heroes who hold the truth behind the story of the original hunt.
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What really matters? The truth? Or what people think? This question plagues thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere, daughter of the famous patriot Paul Revere. Who fired the first shot at Lexington? Does Paul Revere know? Sarah struggles with these questions and looks back at all that has happened since her father began his series of rides for the patriots. Dr. Joseph Warren, a friend of her fathers becomes a part of the family watching over them during Paul Revere's frequent absences. But Sarah fears that Warren's best interest is in her stepmother. As Sarah is left with her own personal war.
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Lawrence Norfolk was born in 1963. He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Lempriere's Dictionary.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0752843265
- ISBN 13 9780752843261
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Condition: Very Good+. A very good+ paperbark with minor crinkles on covers ,creased spine. text very good+. Lawrence Norfolk's award-winning novels Lempri're's Dictionary and The Pope's Rhinoceros have won international acclaim. Now Norfolk returns with In the Shape of a Boar, his most ambitious book yet. Beginning in ancient Greece, a dark tale of treachery and destructive love unfolds amid the hunt for the Boar of Kalydonâ Â"a tale that will reverberate in those same hills across the millennia in the final chaotic months of World War II, as a band of Greek partisans pursues an S.S. officer on a mission of vengeance. After the war, a young Jewish Romanian refugee, Solomon Memel, who was among the hunters, creates a poem based on the experience, which becomes an international literary sensation. But the truth of what happened in the hills of Kalydon in 1945 is more complicated, and as the older Sol reunites with his childhood love in 1970s Paris, the dark memories and horrors of those days emerge anew. Seller Inventory # PA2465
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings. No inscriptions. Light tan to pages and edges, otherwise clean and fine throughout. Cover has moderate shelf wear only, with a light crease to front corner and a bump to spine top. No tears or conspicuous damage. No creasing at all to the spine. Seller Inventory # 1380
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